Small World
Subtitle: an Academic Romance
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: July 30, 1998
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780140279986
First sentence: "APRIL is the cruellest month." Persse McGarrigle quoted silently to himself, gazing through grimy windowpanes at the unseasonable snow crusting the laws and flowerbeds of the Rummidge campus.